Tjaart Potgieter
Tjaart Potgieter (1949-2007). Playwright, actor, literary advisor, translator from English and German and director. ***
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Biography
Raised in Kimberley
Training
BA Dram UP, M Dram UCT
Career
His career includes teaching school childresn, assistant editor of a political magazine and lecturing in drama at the University of Pretoria. He returned to the theatre under guidance of Robert Mohr and Mavis Taylor at UCT, and then joined Chris Pretorius, Laurens Cilliers and John Nankin to start The Glass Theatre. After that he worked with Dieter Reible for some years at the Wupperthal City Theatre in Germany. He joined PACT in 1984 as litarary adviser, director and actor.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He directed Full Hookup for PACT in 1984.
His production of Mitzi Booysen’s The Time of the Hyena starring Elize Cawood, Pierre Knoesen and Nomhle Nkonyeni was staged at the Windybrow Theatre circa 1986.
Founder member of Glass Theatre with Chris Pretorius, 1981-1983.
The Tempest, Maynardville - dir: Ken Leach; Playing with Fire (Strindberg) Dieter Reible., Tjaart’s The vegetable woman or Meditations on Blake; & The Minotaur's Sister (An adaptation of Euripides’s Hippolytus) also Aletta Bezuidenhout; 1985.
Researcher and editor for the television series Isidingo.
Material relating to Houd-den-bek, an Afrikaans playscript by Tjaart Potgieter, based on the novel by André; P. Brink produced by TRUK, possibly in 1990.
He wrote Robinson He Dance
Die Visioene van Emily: 'n drama in drie bedrywe en 'n epiloog. Playscript held by NELM Accession Number:MANU-57621
Awards, etc
Vita Award (Transvaal region) for contribution to Afrikaans theatre for translations of The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, The Tempest, award year 1992.
Two DALRO Awards for the portrayal of the Minister of Culture in Die Keiser and Judge Ligt in Die Gebreekte Kruik (1991-1992).
Potgieter, Tjaart in Drie Susters (best supporting actor on the Afrikaans stage); Nominated for a National Vita Award, 1993
Nominated for a DALRO Award for his role in Drie Susters (best supporting actor on the Afrikaans stage); 1993.
Sources
Tucker, 1997.
Shakespeare's Macbeth programme notes, 1989.
Beeld 25 October 2007.
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